Album Review - The Wonder Of You: Elvis Presley with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

3/5

Thirty-nine years since Elvis’s death, the deluge of ‘new’ Presley releases show little sign of receding. There have been 13 posthumous Presley albums in the past two years alone. Now there comes another: a revisiting of some of the King’s most iconic ballads with newly recorded accompaniment by London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

The classical augmentations are for the most part respectful and understated. A swirl of strings and horns fleshes out the bottomless melancholy of ‘Always On My Mind’ while ‘The Wonder Of You’ negotiates the artery-clogging embellishment more or less unscarred.